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How Women Are Rising in Business

Success

of employer businesses in 2019—a growth of 16.7% million workers in 2019 and grew their workforce by 28%… between 2012 and 2019.” The 2019 “ State of Women-Owned Businesses Report ” from American Express finds women-owned businesses “now represent 42% of all businesses—nearly 13 million—employing 9.4 trillion.”

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How To Hire And Manage Freelancers, According To Experts

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In 2020, more than a third of Americans freelanced — up 22% from 2019, CNBC reports. In 2020, more than a third of Americans freelanced — up 22% from 2019, CNBC reports. Companies who want to have successful working relationships with contractors should find out exactly what their skill sets are and then leverage those skill sets.

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A Growing Number of Freelancers are Providing Professional Services to Businesses

Small Business Labs

.  Like prior years, the 2019 study focuses on the growing group of highly-skilled independent professionals (freelancers, independent consultants, etc.) million in 2011 to 5.9 This, coupled with the growing demand for skilled independent workers, is resulting in more choosing to do this work.  

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Offering Remote Work Options Creates a Diverse, Equitable, and Inclusive Workplace Environment

Allwork

Remote work options can help utilize the unique experience and skills of minorities, increasing diversity and equity. . 2019). . References, methods, and procedures for this study can be found in the Methods and Procedures PDF. . Key Findings: . Offering parents remote work options can put $8 billion back into the economy. .

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How to Create Strategic Partnerships

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An online survey conducted by Forrester Consulting in 2019 found that 49% of respondents saw revenue boosted by partnerships and 77% of respondents saw “partnership development as central to their 2019 sales and marketing strategy.” . Proof it works: Schaus’s profits grew by 15% from 2011 to 2012 as a result of her partnerships.

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The Under Educated Male

Small Business Labs

.       Even more alarming, the gap is forecast to grow with 60% of all college students being women in 2019 (up from 57% in 2011).  So-called middle-skill jobs, typically well-paying work that doesn’t require extensive higher education, are vanishing, dividing the labor force into high- and low-skill positions.

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The constant craving to put numbers on working relationships

Workplace Insight

Paying attention to this shift was Charles Handy who later wrote in his 2019 book 21 Letters on Life and Its Challenges : “I was tempted to steal that subtitle for my own book three years later on organisations and call it ‘Management as if People Mattered’, because that was at the heart of what my message was going to be.